Marissa Esthimer was Editor of the Migration Information Source, the Migration Policy Institute's respected online journal. She works as an analyst in the public sector.
Previously, she was a Communications and Web Specialist at MPI, where she worked on dissemination of the Institute’s research, monitoring of the Institute's media mentions, and on website operations and publication design and production. She has also worked as a pro bono online media consultant for a nonprofit that aims to provide job training for Latinos in the Washington, DC metro area. Previously, she interned at the Center for International Policy and the Center for Democracy in the Americas, where her work focused on U.S. relations with Latin America. She spent a semester studying in Argentina.
Ms. Esthimer graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in anthropology and government. She also holds a master of public policy degree from The George Washington University.